Quoted: After our relaxed stroll along the architectural chic of Omotesando Street, it's time to turn our attention to that other great center of unashamed consumption: Ginza! There was a time when this district was passé. Its former glamour had migrated across town to said Omotesando. Ginza was filling up with discount stores and chain stores [...]

Quoted: If you ask graphic designers how they got into graphics in the first place, a lot of them will tell you about their favourite album covers or something else visually related to music. Enter London-based Tom Hingston: For over ten years, he has been designing quite a lot for music, from flyers for the legendary [...]

Quoted: A cheerful Hello to our first Tuesday of the month that is reserved for PingMag MAKE! Today, you'll learn something about the Japanese kite culture: Compared to other Japanese cities, Nagasaki has a particularly colourful look to it. The town has an international feel, but in a different way to cosmopolitan mega-city Tokyo. Nagasaki was [...]

Quoted: French artist Space Invader, or simply Invader, loves vintage video games so much that he uses their famous characters as motifs - for the mosaic tiles he puts up in the streets. Tiles? ...an interesting twist in street art, we dare to say. Especially since he has been physically mapping the world's cities with his [...]

Quoted: Comfy, cosy, uber cool, baroque: A shop interior isn't usually a place to feel home... Dear consumer, do you care at all? Yes, we bet you do - when you've seen what magic caves Tokyo-based Jamo Associates create for your shopping pleasure. They just did the sophisticated interior of the new 3.1 Philip Lim boutique [...]

Quoted: Flowers, leaves, and snowflakes are just some of the stenciled nature that make up the patterns of kirigami. But the intrigue lies in how exactly these delicate shapes come to life on paper. Especially when we remember the many piles of paper-scraps we produced as kids that didn't come close to these beauties! Today PingMag [...]

Quoted: A few years ago, I happened to work for big-name musician and once, we had a moment alone together in the same room. I felt a bit nervous and didn’t know what to say really – until I remembered that in my very own bag was a copy I picked up in Shibuya of "Big [...]

Quoted: Right in the Pacific Heights 'hood of San Francisco you'll find some strange retro-futuristic dome: Probably the only one of its kind, the sound theatre called Audium is a sound-sculptured space that's been around for over 30 years. It's a venue of musical experimentation with its physical space being one of its main instruments. The [...]

Quoted: Illustrator RYOONO must love his garden veggies a lot! So much, that he lets blooming petals, slender chilli peppers, legumes, various leaf structures, luscious eggplant or lusty artichokes intertwined with bones into his delicate patterns for walls or sporty apparel. PingMag had a short chat with RYOONO at his current UNDULATION exhibition at hpgrp